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Epic does not currently support old version downloads.
Please note: The opt-in (Insider Build) is an early preview of the next update, and you might experience bugs or other issues.
NOTE: We are aware and working on resolving a Known Crash: If a player selects a ship class from the shipyard screen, hits show ship designs, exists to main menu, then reopens the ship designer to hit the new ship class button a crash will occur.
The above crash is now resolved
Major Updates
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Battle Viewer
The Battle Viewer received a significant visual upgrade for all players. This update focuses on providing a cleaner view with more options to show/hide UI elements and ensure each UI element provides more detail on combat interactions. Updates include:
Players can toggle Show Ship HUDs to get HP Bars, Shield Bars, and combat text, including damage numbers. This is off by default.
Selecting a Ship now provides a detailed tooltip that includes a Battle Log specific to that ship. It can be toggled open.
The full Battle Log and ship-specific Battle Logs have been updated to include more information with an attack and defense breakdown for increased visibility.
Trade Route Screen
A new screen which allows players to see a detailed breakdown of trade. The screen indicates the Trade Route between Planets and who initiated each route. It is now accessible from the Action Bar and the Civilization Screen.
Fleet Wide Commands Screen
A new screen was implemented for an improved automation experience. It is accessible through the Civilization Screen.
Tech Tree Update
The Tech Tree received a major update with the Warfare tree being divided into three categories to provide more focused trees and new technologies added. This update now arranges the Tech Tree into six categories. The division makes the branches more readable and provides players with more options early on.
Ship Components
Several new defense and weapon components are now available. More complex and unique components were introduced for owners of Warlords, including components that can increase the damage done to ships operated by species of specific biology, a component that uses damage done to repair itself, and Stellar Marines that can be deployed to take over a ship.
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Point Defense: Shoots out a counter measure to block enemy weapons.
Chaff: Reduces damage done by Missile attacks.
Reflector: Reduces damage done by Beam attacks.
Neuroflex Plating: Increases Armor rating.
Diamonic Composite Armor: Increases Armor rating.
Gluon Disintegrator: A highly advanced beam weapon that unravels molecular bonds using targeted gluon disturbances.
Gluon Capacitation: Enhances beam weapons by increasing their gluon energy storage and discharge capacity.
Disruptor Pulse Array: A weapon system that emits powerful pulses capable of disrupting atomic and subatomic structures.
Phasors: High-intensity energy beams with precise targeting.
Enhanced Phasors: Advanced phasors with improved beam intensity and efficiency.
Coil Accelerator Array: Rapid-fire kinetic weapon that accelerates projectiles to high velocities.
Neutonium Piercer Manifest: Utilizes dense neutronium to pierce through the toughest armors.
Neutronium Emitter Cannons: Emits high-density neutronium projectiles for massive kinetic impact.
Enhanced Neutronium Cannon: Advanced cannon that maximizes neutronium projectile effectiveness and speed.
Graviton Vortex Array: Generates a controlled graviton field to create destructive vortexes.
Enhanced Graviton Vortex Array: Amplifies graviton vortex generation for increased kinetic impact.
Quantum Catapult: Utilizes quantum mechanics to launch projectiles with unparalleled velocity and impact.
Higgs Field Crusher: Disrupts the Higgs field to momentarily increase target mass and induce catastrophic collapse.
Cerberus Warheads: Missiles with complex multi-layered warheads capable of inflicting cascading damage.
Leviathan Torpedoes: The Leviathan torpedo uses a shaped antimatter warhead and delivery system to devastate the enemy.
Furious Leviathan Torpedoes: The Leviathan Torpedo upgraded with weight redistributed to deliver High Explosive antimatter variant warheads.
Icarion Missile Cluster: The Icarion missile system uses volleys of antimatter-infused missiles to spread the damage across the enemy's hull.
Orions Spear: The Orion's Spear system is a devastating single-target missile launcher that utilizes antimatter to shatter through enemy defenses.
Triton’s Revenge: Built upon the original Triton Torpedo design, Triton's Revenge uses antimatter and increased missile guidance to better focus its damage.
Klein’s Dread: Klein's Dread torpedoes strain against the fabric of space-time to quickly deliver destruction to the enemy.
Invasion Tactics
Invasion Tactics allow the player more control over the nature of Planetary Invasions. They allow the player to make interesting choices at the start of an invasion that affects casualties, planetary destruction, and the duration of the Invasion.
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Planetary Assault: Follow general siege protocol to wear down the planet and eventually exert a total claim over the planet. Siege protocol focuses on minimizing casualties and collateral damage.
Ship Types
Ship Types represent a ship's combat specialization based on hull size. Tiny-hull combat ships can have a Fighter or Bomber type, each with a different benefit. We have introduced new types for Small, Medium, Large, and Huge hull-sized ships.
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Carrier: Huge capital cargo ship that carries additional Fighters and Bombers into Battles..
Operational Abilities
Operational Abilities is a new feature that is part of a ship's design. Operational Abilities give specific benefits such as boosting fire rate, increasing speed, and more. Existing ships start with a default operational ability. Players can assign a new operational ability when editing a Ship class with Warlords.
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Barrage: -25% Weapon Cooldown
Defender: +50% Accuracy against Fighters and Bombers
Giant Slayer: +50% Attack against Large and Huge Hulls Ships
Precision: +25% Accuracy
Targeting Priorities
Targeting Priorities is a new feature that affects how ships behave in combat. Targeting Priorities updates the Ship combat AI to go after ships in a specific order so ships can better take advantage of their innate bonuses and focus on their combat role. While all ships are getting a default Targeting Priority based on their size as part of the 2.5 Release, those with Warlords will be able to change Targeting Priorities in the Ship Designer.
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Smallest Combatants: Fighter > Bomber > Frigate
Largest Combatants: Dreadnought > Battleship > Destroyer
Bombers: Bomber > Corvette > Destroyer
Return Fire Only: Capital Ships > Cruiser > Fighters
v2.5 Change Log
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AlienGPT
Reordered Generation to prevent Civilization name from being generated using the traits (e.g., Biology) from the previous generation generation.
Personality is now included in the Player Traits portion of prompt prompt.
Citizen Description now describes the Citizens rather than Civilizations Civilizations.
Implemented ‘Humanoid’ as a distinct species in prompt prompt.
Art
Updated Humanoid Citizen Portraits Portraits.
Updated some Event images images.
Gameplay
The SiliconBasedAbility Race Trait is now used rather than the Stat SiliconBasedLife in all locations locations.
Slightly increased the size of Small maps maps.
Red Stars are now more likely to have Asteroids Asteroids.
Stars now appear more frequently frequently.
Asteroids now appear more frequently frequently.
Durantium now appears mor frequently frequently.
Fixed Targeting Order to properly target ships ships.
The Devout ability was fixed to allow access to the vestigial Krynn techs techs.
Fixed an issue where Ships created from blueprint were not getting their respective Category Module Module.
Stinky Glowy Plants approval penalty now increases 1 per level. People do not like glowy stinky plants.
Ammonia Biology now allows for Radioactive colonization colonization.
Defensive Discipline tech now adds +20% to Evasion which is a valid effect type instead of Jamming Jamming.
Fighters now attack Bombers first in their attack order order.
Balanced some weapons to be slightly more powerful powerful.
Improved controls for Battle Viewer camera camera.
Graphics
Tweaked exposure to reduce the blow out of Planets Planets.
Tweaked Point Lights for better lighting lighting.
Localization
All Languages Languages.
Updated for new content
content.
Korean.
Fixed missing title on Mission screen for The Opportunity mission in Korean Korean.
Text
Economic Stimulus now reflects the actual credit value granted of 100.
Fixed the Broken Teleporter event tooltip to indicate that it gives the Wormhole Generator Generator.
Removed reference to vestigial improvements on Growth tooltip tooltip.
Terran Resistance System description updated to correctly reference it as a class 23 system system.
The Kindness Culture Trait description has been updated to mention that it applies the pacifism cultural awareness percentage as an approval percentage bonus to a player’s civilization.
The upgraded version of the Entrepreneur Citizen role now displays as “Economist” instead of as “Entrepreneur” “Entrepreneur”.
Updated Loyal ability description description.
UI
Citizen Transport is now using unique Tactical Zoom icon icon.
The Fertile Valley terrain tile on the Planet Screen now displays a bonus agriculture bonus icon icon.
The Opponent Setting screen in New Game setup should now always have a background image image.
Added Citizens in transit on Citizen Transports to Population tooltip breakdown for Planet Planet.